21 Jan
2006
21 Jan
'06
7:08 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Would a normal flatbed scanner have enough resolution
to scan a page of
softstrips and then decode the image in software again?
Yes. Did this for an essay a while back; from my rotting memory, the
SoftStrip Laser StripMaker manual said that for a 300 DPI desktop laser
printer, the densities are approximately as follows:
- Low density: 590 bytes per 100mm
- Medium density: 1040 bytes per 100mm
- High density: 1630 bytes per 100mm
Maximum strip length for vertical strips is 240mm and for horizontal
strips 175mm.
I don't believe that strips were produced higher than 300 DPI ;-) so a
$50 1200 DPI scanner could exceed nyquist and get them in B&W monochrome
mode.
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